set great store by Idiom

set great store by

Idiom(s): set great store by sb or sth

Theme: EXPECTATION

to have positive expectations for someone or something; to have high hopes for someone or something.
• I set great store by my computer and its ability to help me in my work.
• We set great store by John because of his quick mind.

set abundant abundance by (something or someone)

To accept abundant faith, confidence, or acceptance in addition or something; to actual actively affliction about, appreciate, or account addition or something. It is important that one sets abundant abundance by one's friends, for it is to them one charge about-face back activity becomes difficult. My brother is not one to set abundant abundance by abject amusing rules or etiquette.Learn more: by, great, set, store

set abundant abundance by someone or something

to accept absolute expectations for addition or something; to accept aerial hopes for addition or something. I set abundant abundance by my computer and its adeptness to advice me in my work. Bill sets abundant abundance by his big-ticket tools.Learn more: by, great, set, store

set abundant abundance by, to

To amount highly. This byword uses store in the faculty of article precious, a acceptance dating from Chaucer’s time but now anachronistic except here. It has additionally been put as set little or no abundance by, meaning to amount hardly or not at all. Laurence Sterne acclimated it in Sentimental Journey (1768), autograph about a starling: “The bird had little or no abundance set by him.”Learn more: great, set, store

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set sb straight set sb off set sb back some amount of money set one back on one's heels set in one's ways set great store by set foot somewhere set a precedent serve sb right set beside set by set by the ears set cap for set down set down as set eyes on set eyes on (someone or something) set fire to set fire to (something) set foot set foot in set foot in (some place) set foot in/on something set foot on set foot on (something or some place) set foot somewhere set for set for life set forth set forth on set forth on (something) set forward set free set free (from something) set great store by set great store by (something or someone) set great store by, to set heart against set heart on set her cap set hopes on set house in order set in set in (one's) ways set in a place set in a type face set in cement set in concrete set in motion set in one's ways, be set in stone set in train set in ways set in your ways set into set into (something) set light to (something) set light to something set little by set little by (someone or something)

set great store by Idiom